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STRAUSBERG, Germany (Reuters) – German military instructors teaching some 1,000 Ukrainian troops how to use Western tanks and other arms will soon be reinforced by several hundred specialists from other countries, the head of the Special Training Command said on Wednesday. “We are talking about some 30-50 troops from Norway and several hundred from the …

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By Simon Lewis, Patricia Zengerle and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden dramatically emphasized U.S. backing for Ukraine this week with a trip to the wartorn country, but back home public support for sending weapons to Ukraine is softening as the conflict enters its second year with no end in sight. Support …

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By Vincent West and Layli Foroudi Saint-Jean-de-Luz, FRANCE (Reuters) – A 16-year-old pupil stabbed a Spanish-language teacher to death on Wednesday at a Roman Catholic high school in the high-end beach resort town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in southwestern France, government officials said. The pupil then told another teacher he was possessed and had heard voices that …

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By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska and Kacper Pempel GLOGOCZOW, Poland (Reuters) – Tamila Melnichenko, 82, has one last wish: to be buried in Ukraine. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in a retirement home in Poland, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads …

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By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – For months, Natalia Honcharenko had clung to the hope that her son, a Ukrainian soldier who helped defend the Mariupol steelworks against relentless Russian attack, might still be alive. Ievhenii Honcharenko, 27, was declared a prisoner of war at the end of May, two weeks after the last …

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By Nandita Bose and Guy Faulconbridge WARSAW/MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will meet leaders of NATO’s eastern flank on Wednesday in a show of support after Russia’s president suspended a nuclear arms control treaty and accused the United States of turning the Ukraine war into a global conflict. With Russia due to mark …

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MARIUPOL, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) – Shells were exploding nearby but Tatiana Bushlanova didn’t flinch when she spoke to Reuters in front of the shattered remains of her home in Mariupol last May. Fighting in the port city has long since ended but the pensioner is still struggling to take in the enormity of what has …

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By Stefaniia Bern and Janis Laizans BUCHA, Ukraine/VILNIUS (Reuters) – The brightly painted nails were what gave the identity of the body away.     Iryna Filkina was 52 when she was killed in the first days of the war in Ukraine.     Nearly four weeks after her death, believed to be on March 5, journalists …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – For two Russian women, both named Yekaterina, the war in Ukraine has stirred them to very different emotions. One supports President Vladimir Putin and expects victory, while the other opposes Putin and thinks Russia will lose. A year since Putin sent troops into Ukraine, the views of Russia’s 145 …

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By Jan Strupczewski and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is close to a 10th sanctions package against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and EU governments hope to reach a deal on Wednesday if they can overcome differences about a ban on Russian rubber and diamond imports, EU diplomats said. Among those …

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